[Milton-L] Quatercentenary Conference at U of Illinois, Nov. 6

[Richard Durocher]

Dear Feisal (if I may?):

    This looks like a wonderful conference you're arranged, with outstanding
speakers.  I wish I had known about it before scheduling my courses this
term.  If you organize any future events at Illinois, may I ask for a bit
more of an early warning?  I can make it down from Minnesota to
Champagne-Urbana faster than Puck can put a girdle round the Earth, er,
well, at least in a few hours.

  Best wishes,

  Rich DuRocher
  St. Olaf College


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Feisal Mohamed <f.mohamed00 at gmail.com>wrote:

> *Conference Announcement, "John Milton: Iconoclast to Icon"*
>
> *Date: November 6, 2008*
>
> *Location: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 805 W
> Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL *
>
> The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a
> one-day conference marking the quatercentenary of Milton's birth, "John
> Milton: Iconoclast to Icon."  This will coincide with a book exhibit
> selected from the world-class collection of Miltoniana housed in the
> university's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
>
> The day before the conference, November 5, will feature a public lecture by
> Geoffrey Robertson, QC, author of *The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the
> Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold* (2005), founder of one of the UK's
> first human-rights law firms, and distinguished jurist on the UN's Internal
> Justice Council (see www.geoffreyrobertson.com).  This lecture will be
> held at 4:00 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.
>
> All events are free and open to the public, but we do request that
> attendees register in advance by e-mailing Feisal Mohamed (
> fgm at illinois.edu).  Those traveling through Chicago may also wish to be
> aware of the Newberry Mlton Seminar to be held on November 8, featuring
> David Quint (
> http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/seminars/miltsem08-09.html).
>
> Please see full conference programme below.
>
>
> *Programme*
>
>  9:30-10:45
>
> *1)  Paradise Lost**: Interpretive Cruces*
>
> Christopher Kendrick (Loyola Chicago), "Milton's Limbo and the Logic of
> Creation"
>
> Feisal Mohamed (Illinois), "Two Wights Who Are Not Knights: Jonson and the
> Mock-Epic Strain in *Paradise Lost*"
>
> John Leonard (Western Ontario), "'Doing what he Describes': Johnson
> Rambling on Milton"
>
> 11:00-12:15
>
> *2)  The Political and Religious Grounds of Milton's Thought*
>
> Stephen Fallon (Notre Dame), "'Inspired with Contradiction': Milton's
> Conflicting Certainties"
>
> Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois, Carbondale), "Desiring What Has Already
> Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in Milton's Early Poems and *Paradise
> Regained*"
>
> Stella Revard (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville), "Charles, Christ, and the
> Icon of Kingship in *Paradise Regained*"
>
>  1:30-2:45
>
> *3)  Imagining Nationhood *
>
> Achsah Guibbory (Barnard), "Milton, England, and Israel"
>
> Robin Grey (Illinois, Chicago), "Towards an Early Modern Theory of
> Conspiracy: Milton's *Eikonoklastes* and Historical Process"
>
> Nicholas von Matzahn (Ottawa), "Nation and Reception"
>
>  3:00-4:15
>
> *4)  Milton and the Early Modern Other*
>
> Paul Stevens (Toronto), "International Milton and the English Nation"
>
> Regina Schwartz (Northwestern), "Milton and Idolatry"
>
> Mary Nyquist (Toronto), "The 'American' as Contemporary Ancestor"
>
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